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Institution opens radiation center
New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center recently opened its Irving Radiation Oncology Center.
The 12,500-square-foot facility, part of the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, will provide diagnostic imaging services for children and adults with cancer.
The center is equipped with technology designed to allow clinicians to safely and precisely target smaller tumor volumes with higher-dose radiation to the head and neck, breast, spine, prostate, lung, abdomen and other areas.
“This new technology offers greater customization and allows for a dramatically reduced treatment course, from weeks to days,” K.S. Clifford Chao, MD, radiation oncologist-in-chief at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia and New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell, said in a press release.